It seems that Beyoncé’s label didn’t bother to ask permission before recording “Still In Love (Kissing You),” which was originally recorded by Des’ree under the title “I’m Kissing You,” Beyoncé’s camp tried to obtain permission to re-record the song-but failed. Beyoncé then allegedly blew off the copyright laws.

“It was one of my all-time favorite songs,” she said. “So I just did it for myself — a lot of songs, I do like that — and I let people hear it and they were like, ‘You are crazy, you have to put it on the album.’ So I did. It was a last-minute decision.”

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Wow, talk about ironic, me posting this right after the Luda post… But anyway, yeah I guess Shawnna is saying goodbye to DTP, she’s packing up and doing her own thing right now and possibly going solo perhaps?

Jeff Dixon, Co-CEO of DTP Records, says the Chicago bred rapper wasn’t dropped by the label but chose to leave “to do her own thing.” DTP will make the official announcement on Thursday During the aforementioned press conference, DTP will also announce the return of a familiar face to its roster. Shawnna will still appear on the upcoming DTP compilation album, Strength In Numbers, which will hit shelves in July.

I haven’t even really heard from this girl in a quite awhile now- come to think of it, I haven’t heard from Shareefa, Field Mob, none of them over there at DTP Records, what’s going on over there Luda!? Lol.

 

I knew there was something about that song I liked! It just screams Usher … the vibe, the style, the lyrics, pretty much everything. But yeah, “Get It Shawty” was a track produced by “J Lack” (James Lackey – Usher’s 22-year-old brother) and was originally intended for Usher to be put on his new album that should be releasing this fall.

“I was working in the studio with Jazze Pha one day and Usher’s brother [James] ‘J. Lack’ [Lackey] came by,” Lloyd explained. “[We] recorded a song called ‘Hazel,’ and because of our vibe, he accidentally played me another song called ‘Get It Shawty.’ Usher was there and he kind of waved him off, like, ‘No, what are you doing? You’re not supposed to play that.’ I was just so in love with the song that I had Jazze kind of call them every day and tell them how much I wanted to record it. They actually invited me to the crib, Usher and J. Lack, and we recorded it at their studio. Originally, their stance was, ‘I know you like it, but how about this one?’ And I was like, ‘No, no, no, I want that one!’ [He laughs.] ‘I need that one. That’s the one for me.’ I know Usher wants to showcase J. Lack’s talent on his next project. So I would go as far as to say, yeah, ‘Get It Shawty’ was probably for Usher’s album.”

Can’t you just imagine Usher singing this song? I mean, don’t get me wrong, Lloyd does his thing on the track, but y’all know how things go with Usher. Y’all should know by now it’s about the song, but more about who sings it. Tell me I’m lying… you know it’s the truth!! 😉

14-year-old Deena Alleyne says she is done with Hip Hop and plans to dance for the lord now » Deena Alleyne says she is sorry for her raunchy dancing with Senegal-born US artist Akon at the Zen nightclub on Thursday. A video clip of the act was posted on the YouTube-Broadcast Yourself website but later pulled after a notification to YouTube by Universal Music Group, which claimed that showing the material was copyright infringment. Konvict Muzik, a record label owned and founded by Akon, is a subsidiary label of Universal Records. Universal Music Group owns the American record label. The clip was also highly publicised on other websites including Vh1 in the United States and Metro in the United Kingdom.

“This whole hip hop thing is a guise and I don’t want any part of it, I don’t want to be any part of it,” said Alleyne during an interview at Chaguanas yesterday. Look at what I have to go through with one mistake that I made. My dad warned me every time and I didn’t listen. I am sorry. Every time he warned me. Everyday my dad would say ‘it is not for you, it is not for you, you do not have to go this way’, but I refused to listen. I don’t want any part of it, not only Zen, everything. The whole hip hop thing, music and clubbing, I don’t want to be part of it.”

Alleyne told the Express that an older friend purchased the ticket for her to attend the event last week. During an interview on Thursday, owner of the Zen nightclub, Johnny Soong said the age limit for the event was 18 years and over. The teenager who admitted that her biggest passion is dancing said she thought that she was only taking part in a normal dance competition. She said after the competition she felt really bad but everyone was congratulating her.

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PART I – STOP SNITCHIN’

Ok, so recently on Sunday night 60 Minutes did a “ground breaking” special with Anderson Cooper on this “snitching phenomenon” breaking into the homes of the African-American community where he interviewed rapper Cam’Ron… OK???… I understand the whole “NO SNITCHIN” thing sweeping people across this good nation but I do believe there is a fine line verses “street cred” and “album sales” what Mr. Cam’Ron stated but uhhh…. What “street cred”??? I find it oh so interesting how some artist talk about “keepin’ it real” and being a gangsta when they from the damn suburbs and ain’t nowhere near “HOOD” as they claim and HELL! What “album sells”??? I highly doubt any individual from the “HOOD” would even purchase such mess in record stores or online on account of bootlegging… So, wouldn’t that hurt your “album sales”? It really wouldn’t make a difference to tell you the truth so I ask…

The “Shoot the Rapper” banner ad (shown above) that I have frequently spotted on MySpace is really starting to erk me now in a way, it just started popping up more and more ever since I’ve placed that link (also shown above) from my dedication post to the Virgina Tech victims up there. I just ignored it at first, but now I’m seeing more and more people complaining about this issue, one blogger who saw the ad while looking at the profile of a Virginia Tech victim said, “I was looking at one student’s MySpace profile, and noticed the rotating banner ad: ‘Shoot the Rapper, win $5,000.‘ I hope MySpace deletes the ad soon.” Shawn Gold, CMO of MySpace said that banner ads on MySpace aren’t placed contextually and so whatever is happening is random, “That’s a random network ad that runs throughout out site, and it’s not connected contextually because we don’t place banner ads contextually on MySpace,” said Gold. “It’s inappropriate if the ads are running on those profiles, and we can eliminate them from our network if that’s the case.” – Read More Here

I don’t know the whole story behind this, so I don’t feel obligated to pick sides. But from what I can gather from this voicemail message left by actor Alec Baldwin to his 11 or 12 year old daughter (he doesn’t even know how old the kid is lol), I hear pain from a loving father. Apparantly, since his divorce with Kim Basinger, Alec has been having problems with his daugher. He purchased her a cell phone so that they can stay in touch, and he schedules certain times for phone calls and what-not. The problem is that the little girl either doesn’t answer the phone, or turns it off at the scheduled times (damn that’s some messed up shit!), and this last time on Thursday, the 19th, was the LAST STRAW for Alec, so he left her a voicemail where he proceeded to lash out at the girl and her actress mom, Kim Basinger, calling them “selfish” and calling the kid “a rude little pig.” Now, I can understand his anger … but calling the kid a “little pig” is kind of over the top, but I can see where he’s coming from. I honestly don’t see anything wrong with what he said. This sounds like a normal “father to daughter” conversation to me. It ain’t that damn serious. I just think that it’s messed up that Kim would leak this to the media and allow that kind of attention to be brought upon her daughter … she’ll never be able to live this down. Check out the uncensored message below!